This is a small and nice program for capturing images and video from a webcam. The UI is scalable and well designed - perfect for netbooks.

It has brightness and contrast controls, supports multiple images formats, time lapse capture, and also raw AVI video. Originally it had Ogg Theora encoding support, but the encoder crashed on anything larger than postage stamp size video, so I removed it.

Gxine won't play raw avi, so I've included a really basic ffmpeg front end so you can convert your video into something that will play. To make this work, you need to select UYVY in the ColorFormat Preferences - otherwise Ffmpeg won't know what to do the the raw video either.

Ffmpeg experts, please post any tips you know to convert the video into a usable format. I haven't yet figured out how to specify the frame-rate or how to get the sound to play.

The unicap pet has Ucview with the required unicap libraries. This program depends on gconf. I have included the gconf-dbus pet, packaged by Disciple, here. Ucview should work if you install all attached pets. I've only tested on 4.3.1, so I'm not sure how well it'll work on other versions.

The sources for mmediac are in a bazaar repo, so you'll need bazaar to dowmload them. Still, this appears to be a ruby script thingy, so you could manually download the files from here, maybe:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~netcyrax/mmediac/v.1.5.0/files

i have pet from debian, but there was a strange thing.... it will be hang if converted media if runnig from menu, but work fine if command directly from command line or folder.

fuhh...... compile not my skill.... i just have fun to play puzzle with puppy

when this happens open the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications and delete any % parameters after the executable (jwm does not handle them well)_________________Web Programming - Pet Packaging 100 & 101

Thanks Jemimah, the Ucview works well on my Acer Aspire One net boot with an Acer Crystal Eye Web Cam. It does work well. Ucview will replace lucview. Your interface is much easier to use and understand. Thank for your efforts!

Yes, technosaurus, oss is the alsa audio stream. I did something similar with the EeePC for audio with ffmpeg. One problem that casue much fustration for me, was the need to turn on the microphone boast in alsamixer. The other headache is those system with an internal microphone have two microphones. Sometimes they are call front and back or internal and external. Getting the correct microphone is a problem.

I did try to record both audio and video and was successful on my Aspire one Here is the code that I used:

I also found the microphone boast in alsamixer need to be increased (to the 50 mark) for good audio. I did use an external microphone also, so, the external microphone had to be selected in alsamixer. I hope this helps._________________Enjoy life, Just Greg
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